just ( yawn ) go round the track once and put us all out of our misery?

If I want to watch advertising billboards revolve I'll nip down to the bus stop.

I like a Grand Prix. Has got a bit tedious over the last few years and ITV's coverage was poor. Thought the race itself was good and the coverage very good. The whole Brawn GP story is very interesting and impressive as well.

that is what Melbourne pays Bernie Eclestone for the rights this year so the talk goes.

Numbers are down each year and it clashes with the start of the Australian footy season start. Frankly no-one ,ok few, give a rats down here.

Even the Who and Counting crows playing couldn't get much interest.

They moved the race to twilight to get a better time slot for overseas viewers so what happens - they are fanging it around in their formula one looking into a low setting sun - better them than me.

really, but then again sports coverage is the least innovative bit of telly where they still think having a few old pros hanging around making weak jokes is exciting viewing. And what's with those portenous intros on the Rugby making out the 6 nations is the battle of stalingrad or something.

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I'm sure I remember a big selling point of digital TV once being that we'd be able to pick from many camera angles - choose the in-car camera we'd like to watch; choose the player we'd like to stay with etc etc

Never really happened did it?

...to be able to actually watch a race again (ITV's ad-breaks always interrupted the race's momentum for me).

I agree it was a wise move for the BBC to retain Brundle (just as it was for ITV to keep the services of Murray Walker), but I miss the late-night highlights programme - surely space could be found for that (following MotD2?).

It was, I agree, absolutely wonderful to have 'The Chain' back in its rightful place, but the opening montage was dreadful. F1 can be very exciting, so who decided not to show any actual racing but some dreadful, but no doubt very expensive, graphics of computer games.

I remember the opening credits when the Beeb last had the coverage and before I knew who or what the music was. The opening bass riff accompanied shots of the build-up to a race, the preparation, the tension before the lights changed. Then, when the guitar soared in, the race started with shots of the speed and reality of racing. It was very exciting.

Now, nothing. no excitement, no sense of speed or danger, just some poxy cartoon.

Apparently F1 needs to reach out to a new audience, it has got too expensive and bloated and as Tony says 'no-one gives a rats'. I think the BBC should have showed some of the characters - the old stagers and the young Turks in the build-up and then conveyed some of the drama and speed. That might encourage people to stay tuned in.

I'm on my own but I thought Legard was not as good as Allen.Found him annoying.I understand he's from radio so he overtalks and perhaps will learn to reign it in a bit.

I was watching the boat race yesterday on ITV. Twice they showed a graphic of the race which was like a helicopter going over the course. Instead of showing the graphic, they could have shown a helicopter view of the course.

...has become more about the medium than the message. Just show us the sport, and tell us the news, please, and dispense with all the bloody graphics and strange camera angles.